On 13 Mar 2002, Eric W. Biederman wrote: > Though the more I think about this the more I want to put this in ELFBios > (which may sit in the LinuxBIOS tree) and not in the core. There > are so many weird issues. Having the bootloader do the work may > be the best thing.
yes. I agree. I thought about this too. Jeff is right again. I hate it when he does that :-) I think we still let linuxbios do some PCI setup so that some basic sanity prevails. It doesn't cost much and it is useful for just about everything I've seen. Then for systems like Plan 9 we have another intermediate system that does the ugly stuff. Plan 9 will catch up eventually -- they'll have to address hot plug someday, and once they do, I think our problems will be solved. ron
